March 2010

How Fast Can You Lose Fat?

March 30, 2010
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In one sentence: as fast as your protein requirements let you. First, there are stupid ways to do this. Some of those ways (juice fasting, relying on designer shakes, etc) are stupid at best and dangerous at worst. I am interested in the scientifically and anecdotally verified method of losing fat as fast as possible, [...]

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Re: Irresistible Urges – Our Relationship with Food

March 27, 2010
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In the previous post about irresistible urges, the message was sent out terse and unforgiving. In this post, I think I’d ought to elaborate on the justification for that. The first assumption that I am going to make is that we as human beings do not relate to our food rationally on a energy requirement [...]

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Irresistible Urges

March 24, 2010
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This sums up the entire post. While I strive for the ideal scenario described elegantly by the quote, “I don’t want to be a product of my environment, I want my environment to be a product of me.”, it isn’t practical; every single negative impact of the environment has to be consciously fought and suppressed. [...]

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On Being a Commuter Cyclist

March 20, 2010
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Today’s post is going to be long and anecdotal in nature. However, I will promise a list of what I learnt from the experiences I am about to describe at the end of the post. This is a post about cycling, specifically, cycling to work/school/etc. Background I learnt to cycle when I was 6, and [...]

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Losing Fat is like Doing Math

March 16, 2010
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If you ask a room full of 100 adults about their experiences on taking Math in school, there’s a high likelihood that the responses will fall on the edges of the graph. In other words, people usually either hate or love doing Math. You would likely find the same trend with people who embrace a [...]

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Building a Home Gym

March 13, 2010
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Having worked out at various gyms over the years, from the high school gym to many public gyms, I finally decided this year to make the switch to a home gym. Note, that this home gym I’m speaking of is specific to strength training purposes. It addresses my needs perfectly, and leads to much more [...]

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The Power of Anecdote

March 9, 2010
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As much as I like to based all my decisions on rational, quantifiable parameters, life is never like that. In fact, one of the key characteristics of being a good scientist is to recognise and acknowledge the failings of your knowledge. I’m no scientist, but I can surely say that in the realm of health [...]

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Warming up for Exercise – A Layperson’s View

March 6, 2010
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Today’s topic ties in with a recent post of mine, ‘Can You Run Safely?’ Part of staying injury-free during exercise is to ensure that your body is prepared for the forthcoming exertion. This preparatory phase is known as the warm-up. Why I want to address this topic, is simply because the layperson doesn’t seem to [...]

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Defining Health Again

March 4, 2010
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For the average person, there are thousands of definitions of the word “health”. All of them I think boil down to a similar goal: Prevention or slowing of the onset of aging. If we assume that the prime disadvantage of aging is damage to individual cells and systems which negatively affect the function of the [...]

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Can you run safely?

March 2, 2010
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When I say running, I am referring to middle to long distance running at a slow to moderate pace (which most people can sustain for a considerable period of time, from as low as 15 minutes, to as long as several hours). Jogging may describe the activity better, but most people like to refer to [...]

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